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Circulating among Government departments in Washington is a 19-page treatise called "New Federalist Paper No. 1, by Publius." Two centuries ago, "Publius" was Hamilton. Madison and Jay, whose collective prose, "written in Favour of the New Constitution," became a classic catechism of the American democracy. The Nixonian Publius is White House Speechwriter William Safire, a longtime G.O.P. public relations consultant...
...passage we kept by two sturdy porters named Riches and Poverty, and the latter obstinately refused to give Entrance to any who had first gain'd the Favour of the former ..." --Benjamin Franklin, 1772, Dogwood Paper...
...Cambridge City Council passed a resolution last night in favour of the twohearing proposal. The Council has been waging a fight to delay the Inner Belt ever since it was first suggested...
Richard Lowery, a black first-year student at the Business School, said that his trips were "so far, so good," and that other black students he had talked with felt the same. Lowrey added that he is in favour of black students' participation in admission because "we can evaluate certain people with certain types of background better than other people without that background...
...Greater Boston Meet has always meant more to local residents, and Spengler, a native of Arlington, could cast aside his role as a consistent supporting runner in favour of a first-place medal. Colburn, too, has shown flashes of brilliance and is a threat to run away with it all any time he is near enough to scent victory...